Luxury cruise line Crystal Cruises operated its ships with aging IBM 3090 mainframes that were tough to integrate with other systems, expensive and slow to operate—and about to fall out of service. To reduce the time, cost, and risk of migration, Crystal Cruise chose to port its custom code to a Microsoft® ASP.NET solution using Fujitsu NeoBatch, NeoKicks, and NetCOBOL tools. The result enables fast, easy integration with third-party software and gives employees new tools such as graphical data and navigation. Performance is so much faster—one process that used to take an hour is completed in 90 seconds—that the company is capitalizing on the increased speed to adopt more effective business processes.
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Day-Timer, the world-renowned maker of personal productivity tools, wanted to increase its own productivity by reducing costs—including the U.S.$725,000 annual cost of the mainframe on which it ran its business. The company migrated its ERP software to Windows® Server and the Microsoft® .NET™ Framework, using tools from Alchemy Solutions. The result cut costs by 94 percent. As a bonus, batch processing is 10 percent faster and developers are 25 percent more responsive to business needs.
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Publishing giant Simon & Schuster needed to accelerate every aspect of its business, from authoring to getting books into the hands of customers. But it was still managing its order fulfillment and distribution processes on an aging mainframe that kept business processes slow, inflexible, and costly. So, the company ported its mainframe applications to Windows® Server 2003 and the Microsoft® .NET™ Framework. As a result, business processes are up to 300 percent faster, nightly batch Windows® are cut in half, trouble tickets for the system have plummeted by 75 percent, and overall IT costs are down 11 percent. Simon & Schuster now has a system that fulfils customers’ last-minute orders quickly and effectively—and that boosts IT recruitment and retention, as well.
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Skandinavisk Data Center (SDC) helps small and medium-sized banks compete with larger ones by providing competitive IT services at an affordable price. To maintain its long-term viability, SDC is moving its core banking system from an IBM mainframe to the Microsoft® Application Platform. By doing so, SDC can deliver 99.8 percent availability, increase agility, and provide high performance. In addition, the company can save more than DKK100 million (U.S.$16 million) in yearly operational costs.
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"The migration (or better re-engineering) process is aimed at transforming present AS/400 COBOL applications so that their functions can be executed on the .NET platform, allowing further evolution based on a consistent multilevel architecture. The application knowledge (business rules) will continue to be maintained inside INPS, leveraging present personnel skills."
The Superior Court Stanislaus County System sought a way to update its legacy Case Management system. Nine months into efforts to implement a Java-based solution, they halted the project because of scalability problems and soaring development costs. The Court adopted a strategy of using NetCOBOL for .NET with Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft® .NET™ Framework to migrate its legacy system off the mainframe and into a modern environment. The new system runs on a Microsoft® Windows® Server operating system and offers a lower cost of ownership, greater extensibility and improved performance. Working with NetCOBOL for .NET (language add-in software for the .NET Framework), the new application required just two and a half months to build, test and implement.
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"By switching to a Wintel platform, we save up to a million euros a year, and the migration cost will be recovered in under 26 months."
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“We’re seeing a tremendous reduction in total cost of ownership by porting from the mainframe to .NET. That means more than saving money—it means we can direct our investment to areas where it has the greatest impact on guest services. Fujitsu and Microsoft® are enabling us to do an even better job at what we do best.”
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Skandinavisk Data Center (SDC) helps small and medium-sized banks compete with larger ones by providing competitive IT services at an affordable price. To maintain its long-term viability, SDC is moving its core banking system from an IBM mainframe to the Microsoft® Application Platform. By doing so, SDC can deliver 99.8 percent availability, increase agility, and provide high performance. In addition, the company can save more than DKK100 million (U.S.$16 million) in yearly operational costs.
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"We’re not only faster in all of our regular processes; it’s also easier for us to handle anything unusual. If a customer places a last-minute order that has to go out, it goes out. The technology no longer delays us until the next day, or requires us to do it manually, or at extra expense. We can react throughout the day and run orders into our warehouse as we need to."
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Faced with the challenge of keeping the core administration system for their civil insurance business up-to-date and within budgetary constraints, Interpolis determined that moving to Microsoft®’s .NET Framework was the most efficient, secure and cost effective option. They selected NetCOBOL for .NET and Microsoft®’s SQL Server as the best software to enable the move.
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Presidential Life lifted and shifted its CICS applications from the mainframe several years ago to Windows® NT. This has been a good move for the company but support for the operating system and software on which the applications depend is coming to an end. Presidential Life therefore decided to research alternative options and found that NeoKicks, with Pervasive's Btrieve, was able to give their applications the new lease on life they needed.
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"Debugging software using the Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008 development system is faster and more efficient than using 'the limited tools' available for the mainframe. Developers can work more effectively, copying files to their desktop quickly to work on their local machines. As a result, developers respond to updates requested by the business at least 20 to 25 percent faster than before."
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"There is so much we can do now that our central system has been migrated from the mainframe to the Windows® platform. We have only begun to explore the possibilities—and the impact on our people and our customers." Allan Hansson, Information Technology Program Manager, Stockholmshem “With the Windows®-based solution, Stockholmshem is enjoying more performance than it could afford on an updated mainframe, and much more performance than it saw on its legacy mainframe.” Kjell Hassel, Project Manager, EDB
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Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), one of the United Kingdom’s largest utility companies, wanted a new financial reporting system to generate internal reports and to meet the demands of the Country. SSE was using IBM software with DB2 databases, but it has built its new Management Information System with Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 running on Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003. SQL Server easily coped with such a major implementation. The migration of data processing COBOL code from the mainframe onto the Microsoft® .NET™ Framework used Fujitsu’s NetCOBOL for .NET. The resulting solution has delivered a 1.9 TB database, on average providing better performance than the legacy system. Some reports that previously took 40 minutes now only take 4 minutes. The solution has demonstrated significantly improved reliability and fault tolerance for SSE.
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The State of Washington Department of Licensing (WADOL) has a mature set of applications running on a Unisys 2200 mainframe. These applications, developed over 30 years, comprise close to 1.5 million lines of COBOL code, accessing thousands of files, large databases (DMS and RDMS), and hundreds of user interface screens, and are controlled by over 50,000 lines of job control language (Unisys' ECL and SSG). The applications support the core of WADOL's business.
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